US exit from Paris Accord: A fact-check on Trump's climate change theories

US won't fully exit the Paris agreement before Nov 4, 2020, a day after the next US election

Back in 2012, business magnate Donald Trump (now the US President) had said the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese, to make US manufacturing non-competitive. His exasperation with the world was further aggravated when 195 countries united under the umbrella of the Paris Accord in 2015 to battle against global warming and climate change.

Trump's tirade against the pact continued even as he was elected the President of the US late last year. And this culminated into Trump leaving the world dumbstruck as he announced on Friday the United States' exit from the deal. During